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April 4, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Elton John and Brandi Carlile Who Believes in Angels

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Elton John and Brandi Carlile, Who Believes in Angels? (Rocket/Mercury/EMI) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Link TBD / EltonJohn.com (U.S.) Tri-Color LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Alternate Cover "Neon Angel" CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Bob Dylan, Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Guy Clark, Joan Sutherland, Liza Minnelli, Melanie

February 9, 2024 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

We Can Work It Out

Over the years, there have been countless collections of Beatles covers.  Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint threw its hat into the ring late last year with a fulsome new 3-CD set.  We Can Work It Out: Covers of The Beatles 1962-1966 concentrates only on the Fab Four's first years, arranging its 85 songs in the order of the original Beatles song releases.  Most, though not all, of the versions are contemporaneous, making this set a particularly enjoyable tour through the rapidly shifting pop music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Cilla Black, Jackie Trent, Jan and Dean, Joe Cocker, José Feliciano, Liza Minnelli, Mary Wells, Peter and Gordon, Petula Clark, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Mamas and The Papas, The Supremes, Various Artists

December 5, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Disco Discharge Box of Sin

The Disco Discharge series, dormant for over a decade, has been recently reactivated by Demon Music Group's Edsel label for one of its boldest projects yet.  The 5-CD collection Disco Discharge Presents Box of Sin (also available on 4 LPs of highlights) is a journey through the gay club scene of 1980-1989 via 54 full-length or extended tracks from artists both expected and unexpected - including Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Donna Summer, Dreamgirls Sheryl Lee Ralph and Jennifer Holliday,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Bananarama, Barry Manilow, Bronski Beat, Donna Summer, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Liza Minnelli, The Communards, The Pointer Sisters, Various Artists, Whitney Houston

July 1, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

My Best Friends Wedding OST

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Liza Minnelli, Live in New York 1979 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Liza Minnelli's remarkable album of her record-breaking 1979 Carnegie Hall stand receives its first-ever release to wide retail in two distinctive editions from Second Disc Records and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Diana Ross, Elvis Costello, Faster Pussycat, Liza Minnelli, Melvin Van Peebles, Motley Crue, Paul Anka, Rusty, The Fall, The Judds, Three Man Army

June 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Liza Live in New York 1979

Tomorrow, July 1, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records revisit a landmark album recorded in the heart of New York, New York by one of the most extraordinary entertainers of all time.  It's perhaps our most expansive release ever: the very first reissue - not to mention first-ever wide release - of Liza Minnelli's electrifying Live in New York 1979.  This remarkable "lost" concert album will be released as a deluxe vinyl set on 2 LPs and an Ultimate Edition on 3 CDs. When the Oscar, Emmy,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Liza Minnelli

May 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 27 Comments

Liza Live in New York 1979

Start spreading the news.  On July 1, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records will revisit a landmark album recorded in the heart of New York, New York by one of the most extraordinary entertainers of all time.  It's perhaps our most expansive release ever: the very first reissue - not to mention first-ever wide release - of Liza Minnelli's electrifying Live in New York 1979.  This remarkable "lost" concert album will be released as a deluxe vinyl set on 2 LPs and an Ultimate Edition on 3

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Liza Minnelli

March 11, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

KISS Off the Soundboard Virginia Beach

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

September 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Liza Minnelli Results Expanded

The list of Liza Minnelli's musical partners reads like a "Who's Who" of popular culture: Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Charles Aznavour, Donna Summer, Joel Grey, Chita Rivera, and of course, her mother Judy Garland, to name a few.  Yet one of Minnelli's most cherished collaborations was also one of her most unexpected. 1989's Results was the superstar's first studio album in over a decade, and teamed her with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, a.k.a. the British dance-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop Tags: Liza Minnelli, Pet Shop Boys, Stephen Sondheim

August 25, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Alex Chilton A Man Called Destruction

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Alex Chilton, A Man Called Destruction: Expanded Edition (Omnivore) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  In 1995, the late Big Star and Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton returned to Memphis' Ardent Studios, the site of his classic work with Big Star, to record A Man Called Destruction.  Blending original songs with a host of eclectic covers from the likes of Chris Kenner ("Sick and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alex Chilton, Andy Williams, Big Star, Bob Dylan, Delegation, Exposé, Jack Tempchin, Judee Sill, Liza Minnelli, Nick Lowe, Pet Shop Boys, Rita Coolidge, The Undisputed Truth

June 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Liza Minnelli Results Expanded

Following its recent reissues of Liza Minnelli's Columbia albums The Singer and Tropical Nights, Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment (SFE) imprint is turning its attention to Liza with a Z's 1989 Epic album Results - an epic collaboration, if there ever was one, with The Pet Shop Boys.  The SFE edition, due in the U.K. on August 25, promises to be a definitive look at this classic pop album, stacked with 3 CDs and 1 DVD.  (Read about those past reissues right here!) When the stage and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop Tags: Liza Minnelli, Pet Shop Boys

April 18, 2017 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Liza Minnelli The Singer

When Columbia Records released Liza Minnelli's The Singer in March 1973, the album's understated title wasn't nearly enough to encapsulate her many facets.  The singer-dancer-actress had, in fact, already received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress - the second one of which, for Cabaret, would result in a win that very same month.  Just two months later, in May, her television variety special Liza with a Z would win multiple Emmy Awards.  The Singer inaugurated the third major-label

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Liza Minnelli

November 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Elaine Paige Presents The Musicals

Elaine Paige is lending her name to a new 3-CD collection of musical theatre favorites.  Elaine Paige Presents The Musicals is due on November 25 from Union Square Music, with 58 tracks and over three hours of music. Elaine Paige Presents the Musicals is licensed from various labels, making for a cross-section of recordings.  You'll find familiar names from the worlds of theatre, movies and pop, including Michael Ball ("Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love, "Falling Slowly" from

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbara Dickson, Elaine Paige, Liza Minnelli, Michael Crawford, Petula Clark, Various Artists

September 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

David Bowie Five Years Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72, the Ziggy Stardust

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Billy Cobham, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Don Henley, Herb Alpert, Johnny Mathis, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Loggins and Messina, Micky Dolenz, Queen, Sneakers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tony Bennett

October 10, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

frank sinatra duets sde

The way he wore his hat…the way he sipped his tea (or likely, something stronger)…the memory of all that…no, they can’t take that away from us.  Frank Sinatra’s influence is still felt every day – in style, in attitude, especially in song.  Though 2013 has been a quiet year for the Chairman’s catalogue, that’s about to change on November 19 when Capitol and UMe celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sinatra’s triple-platinum Duets album with a variety of commemorative reissues including a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Liza Minnelli, Luther Vandross, Neil Diamond, Patrick Williams, Patti Labelle, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

December 28, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

the association complete singles

Wow!  Was it just over a year ago when a rather dubious report began circulating (that, shockingly, was picked up by many otherwise-reputable publications) that proclaimed the death of the CD was secretly scheduled by the major labels for 2012?  Well, 2012 has come and (almost) gone, and it might have been the most super-sized year in recent memory for reissues, deluxe and otherwise, from labels new and old.  Here at the Second Disc, we consider our annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards a companion

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Barbra Streisand, Lee Hazlewood, Lionel Bart, Liza Minnelli, Lon and Derrek Van Eaton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Lindsay, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Matt Monro, Michael Jackson, Open Forum, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ronnie Dyson, Salsoul Orchestra, Sam Phillips, Stephen Sondheim, The Association, The English Beat, The Jackson 5, The Kinks, The Spinners, The Velvet Underground

May 8, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

but seriously

  Barenaked Ladies, Stop Us If You've Heard This One Before! (Rhino) A single-disc compilation of mostly unreleased odds and ends from the BNL catalogue. Bill Withers, Just as I Am: 40th Anniversary Edition (Big Break) A remaster of Withers' breakthrough 1971 album, featuring the immortal "Ain't No Sunshine" and "Grandma's Hands." Phil Collins, ...But Seriously (Audio Fidelity) Collins' 1989 solo album, featuring hits "Another Day in Paradise" and "Something Happened on the Way to

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Categories: News Tags: Liza Minnelli, Mariah Carey, My Bloody Valentine, Phil Collins, Phil Spector

March 12, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

liza live at the winter garden1

Liza Minnelli turns 66 today, and could rightfully relax, look back and celebrate over six decades in show business.  But the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, who made her first onscreen appearance as a baby in 1949's MGM extravaganza In the Good Old Summertime, has never been one to rest on her considerable laurels.  Minnelli is still touring, recording and doing what she does best: entertaining, whether on the big screen (Sex and the City 2), the small screen (Arrested

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Categories: News Tags: Liza Minnelli, Marvin Hamlisch

April 22, 2010 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Leave it to Bob Dylan.  In his 2004 memoir Chronicles Volume One, he writes about the experience of listening to Judy Garland: "A couple of times I dropped a coin right into the slot and played 'The Man That Got Away' by Judy Garland.  The song always did something to me...listening to Judy was like listening to the girl next door."  He writes of the song's composer, Harold Arlen: "In Harold's songs, I could hear rural blues and folk music...there was an emotional kinship there."  He continues,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli

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